It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

You can never have too much, butter.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.

I may forget myself, but you I could never forget.

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.

The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.